4. Floyd Mayweather vs. Timothy Bradley
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After Tim Bradley won a hard, but decisive fight versus Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez, many writing pundits said he could be the only boxer alive at the moment to dethrone the pound-for-pound champion, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Now that may be a bit of a stretch, seeing how in this writers opinion, no one in this decade or the next can beat the man they call “Money.”
But that is not to say Bradley would just get steamrolled. He’s not the undefeated WBO World Champion for no reason.
Bradley has speed that Mayweather hasn’t seen since the first few rounds of the Shane Mosely fight or the Zab Judah.
Both of these fighters were not on the same “world level talent” as Mayweather with Mosely’s old age and Judah’s midget mind, but Bradley is a tough SOB who is in his prime and has never been accused of lacking heart or the will of a champion ala Victor Ortiz or Zab Judah.
Mayweather does beat him with overall intangibles such as power—Bradley’s KO percentage is 37.5; Mayweather’s KO percentage is 57.8—and overall experience—Bradley has 31 fights; Mayweather has 45 fights.
It would be a great fight, with it being a title unifying Welterweight matchup as well, but it would likely die down towards the end turning into the Mayweather show.
